The Internet has ushered in a 24-hour news cycle, and newspapers often hastily publish articles. While print editions run once, several subsequent versions can be published online. Many changes are innocuous, but significant edits can happen without a record of any changes. This briefing on NewsDiffs, the go-to site for referencing and tracking silent changes to online articles, discussed example changes and the research opportunity presented by its trove of data. Since 2012, the site has been archiving hundreds of thousands of online news articles from many major sources.

Speaker Biography: Eric Price is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2013, and his dissertation received a George M. Sprowls award for best doctoral thesis in computer science at MIT.

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